The sprawling New York City Department of Education is sometimes treated as a single large bureaucracy. Sometimes it’s thought of as a network of schools. Most of all, it’s thousands of educators serving the children of millions of New Yorkers which is why the enrollment and attendance statistics revealed in the Daily News this week are startling.
NYC is poised Tuesday afternoon to announce a plan to upgrade dozens of school cafeterias to a more contemporary self-serve, grab-and-go model, but many kitchens in old school buildings are also in need of renovations such as new equipment and air conditioners.
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Roughly 800 preschool-aged children were waiting for seats in their legally mandated preschool special education programs at the end of the last school year, according to city data.